To the Editor of the "Nonrt-Cumwa Day News!
Sw—I did not at first think you would reach even' that $100,000 "Yor the Coronation Memorial Fund... Now that you have passed $110,000, T consider that there should be no delay In Anishing the business by. gotting that remaining $38549.46—call it £2,800, Does anyone suggest that there should be any bother in getting that amount, seeing what you call the "obvious' gaps" in the list?
The British Government is often accused of lacking the qualities of its Dredecessors. Violent "Jeremiads to. that effect most often come from. business men here, Let them have their own medicine, What are the conditions of this fund? A responsible body of British leaders—so far as: there are leaders—announce that, as no-one has moved in an attempt to commemorate the Coronation. permanently—a Historic Coronation specially calling for unmistakable roof of the Empire's solid loyalty to the Monareh; and. the person of a risen to the height of Jan Unprecedentedly painful occasion jin a manner commanding admiration—that they propose to call for funds {to do a definite service to the community by enabling the chief British Jschool here to function on modern. lines. The appeal has the support of the senior British newspaper and its Jcollesgue. It receives 'a good send. Joft by certain important British rms: Jand by individual donations from the rank and fle.
'The Fund has not been fixed at a figure beyond the capacity of the Jcommunity in these hard times to) Jbear. The result achieved proves that, Indeed to pretend that a community which often insiste that it should have the British Government's ear because: Jot its vast stake in China can regard £10,000 as anything but a bagatelle is to be stupid, There is no complaint of the "small man's subscriptions. On the whole they have been good. As he is harder pressed than mast he might be excused if he decided to walt for more leadership from the big concerns.
It the fund had been raised to set up. some elegant but practically useless statue, always assuming that it had representative backing without "an effective alternative being! Droposed, I maintain that. the big firma should have weighed in. just the same out of a sense of discipline on which they are so fond of tecturing other people. "But the fund has a sensible, practical objective. Tt indirectly' benefits the big firms as it does not some other lesser members: fof the community.
T think it is pathetic that you should have had to wait for nearly -three months to get as far as $111,000, imagine you do not like to appear'
be importunate, but T am like: 'Suanteuess Beccar convinced. that nothing but plain' speaking will do Jany good now. You may feel that. this letter may antagonize rather than persuade and so decide to throw it in the wastepaper basket. I cai Jassure you however that it represents: the views of more than you perhaps believe. Give ita chance. "If the jioggards now come in 1 shall_not Jclaim to have stirred them. They Jean have full credit. All 1 want is to see that our-face is not blackened.
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